Israel pounds Gaza City outskirts as onslaught ramps up
The Israeli army accelerated armed operations around Gaza City and ended the temporary pause that allowed help delivery, since Ilan Weiss, a hostage seized by Hamas, had healed.
Israel is progressing with the plan to seize full control of the Gaza Strip, starting from Gaza City to destroy Hamas after about 23 months of war.
In the surrounded settlement, hunger faces a global epidemic.
“Local tactical pause in military activity will not apply to the Gaza city region, which forms a dangerous war zone,” the Israeli army said. He said.
The attack on Gaza City gradually concentrated last week, as Israel called on civilians to go to the south of the Palestinian settlement.
Avichay Adraee, the Arabic language spokesman of the Israeli army, said that the army operates in great intensity at the foot of the Gaza City and “deepened our strikes” while pressing the attack.
While the images of weakened children attracted international criticism, they announced 10 -hour tactical pauses to fight during the settlement and new aid corridors, which restrict human delivery for months.
The global hunger monitor, which works with the United Nations and major aid agencies last week, said that it was famine in Gaza.
Israel rejected this determination.
Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that five people, including two children, died of malnutrition and starvation in Gaza.
Local health officials said that Israel’s fire in the besieged Palestinian settlement killed 48 people on Friday.
Reuters video showed a series of bodies in the white bags lying outside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the early hours of Friday while relatives were crying nearby.
A man found a much smaller body, he was held on a hand.
“What is the reason? Why did they hit them? Let them tell us what they were doing while sleeping? What did a three -year -old child do?” Manal Sahweil said, a relative of the people who were killed in an air strike.
The conflict began on October 7, 2023, with an attack led by Hamas, where armed armed suppressing border defenses, killed about 1200 people according to Israelites and seized 250 hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli forces saved Weiss’s body and identity of a second individual whose identity has not yet been published.
A Israeli military official said Weiss was killed on October 7, 2023 and was taken from his home by Hamas Fighters.
The authority said his death was determined on December 3, 2023.
According to Gaza Health officials, Israel’s military campaign in Gaza killed more than 63,000 people, mostly civilians in Gaza.
